Re: Anglo-Whats?

From: flink (flink_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:54:54 +0000 (UTC)

"allan connochie" <allan@EASYNET.CO.UK> wrote in message
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> > > > "allan connochie" <allan@EASYNET.CO.UK> wrote in message
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> > > > >> Of course you're right. The term Anglo-Saxon has come to define
> > > England
> > > > as
> > > > > a whole
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> > > > England as an arse hole don't you mean. There are parts of England
> that
> > > have
> > > > never been English and never will.
> > >
> > > Don't be silly there are parts of England which have strong local
> > identities
> > > but they are still English. If you went into a pub in Cumbria or
> > > Northumberland and told them they weren't English they'd take your
head
> > off.
> >
> > Which is only because they have been brainwashed into believing that
they
> > are of genetically pure members of the white Anglo-Saxon master race.
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> I don't think they see themselves as 100% Anglo-Saxon. You tend to find
> folk in Cumbria are reasonably well aware of their region's history. What
I
> said was they see themselves as English. No-one is speaking genetics
apart
> from you.
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> > > We've been through this so often. The only part of England when there
> are
> > > some of the 'original inhabitants' who perhaps don't feel 100% English
> is
> > > Cornwall, but even there the feeling seems to be not too strong as the
> > > Cornish nationalist party only gets a tiny percent of the vote.
> Somewhere
> > > less than 1% I think.
> > >
> > >
> > > Allan
> >
> > If after the past 18 years or Tory rule some people in the excluded
parts
> of
> > English feel that they are 1% not English it can only be because they
have
> > an IQ of 1%.
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> The question as to if folk on the peripheries of England want more
> devolution or not has nothing to with them being English or not. It's
about
> how they wish to govern themselves within England. Some folk in the likes
> of Newcastle don't have a great liking for Londoners but again that is
about
> relationships within England rather than being about Geordies not seeing
> themselves as English. It's certainly nothing to do with genetics or
> nationality. Scots may joke that Geordies are Scotsmen with their heads
> kicked in but it's not taken too seriously.
>
> Allan

Because being English is defined in racial terms, i.e. as being of
genetically pure Anglo-Saxon descent, and not in national terms, i.e. I was
born in England so I am English, then you can go and shove England up your
backside!The Cornish accept anyone as Cornish who goes to live in Cornwall
and learns Cornish.The Cornish are not racist. Why is being English defined
in racist terms? Could it be because England is a racist state? What about
*** Watch or Immigration Watch, or whatever you want to call it?

F.
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